[On the building of the 'Ground Zero Mosque']
They should not build one that is soooo disrespectful its like building the Nazi party headquarters at Aushwitz.
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Imagine some psycho raping your mother repeatedly in front of your tied up Dad. Slitting her throat. and then torturing your father to death with electricity. Then burning down the house. THEN, after the psycho is in prison(or dead), and you have moved into a trailer home on the property, his distant relative family buying the house across the street and building a front lawn huge shrine to their poor,mentally ill, misunderstood son including a small billboard of his twisted, smiling face facing your bedroom window... and having the gall to tell you that the shrine is to promote healing between your two families.
THAT is how 9-11 victims feel about this mosque.
To YT:
Oh, and the ACTUAL 9/11 victims have no problem with it. Only bigots who don't know the full story do.
It's not even AT Ground Zero.
As for your analogy, that would be far worse, because this is a mosque built by non-militant Muslims who have no part of anything that occured on 9/11, and that is not even close to what your other example was.
Also, I hate to be the one to say this, and no disrespect toward anyone that lost family members or friends or died on 9/11, but this ridiculous fixation on one tragic event should really stop.
Comparatively there have been far greater losses of life throughout history, and in the future there will most assuredly be far more, unfortunately.
Your analogy doesn't ring true. It would be like Germans building a beer hall a couple miles from Aushwitz. Maybe not totally appropriate, but not totally inappropriate. Not all Germans are Nazis, and not all Muslims are terrorists.
Oh but wait, you do think all Muslims are terrorists.
Well, seeing as the people behind the CULTURAL CENTRE THAT IS NOT AT "GROUND ZERO" likely have nothing to do with 9/11, I would like to join my voice to the "analogy doesn't work" chorus.
However, methinks we shouldn't talk about ANALogies too much around YT, he could get ideas... ;)
So, the situation YT described. Yeah, you could use that analogy, except the distant relative moves several blocks away and only has a photo that, among other people, has picture of the killer.
@YT: So are you a 9-11 victim then? Do you even actually live in New York?
Probably not. New York would crush you like the worm you are, and you know it, so you defend theoretical New Yorkers' theoretical bigotry from far away when it's convenient, just like Sarah Failin and all the rest of the right-wing assholes who think they can speak for a group of people as diverse as New Yorkers or even 9/11 victims specifically. I don't live in New York but I've lived in and near big cities, and big cities can speak for themselves, and what they say isn't as simple as what Faux News wants to hear.
"Imagine some psycho raping your mother repeatedly in front of your tied up Dad. Slitting her throat. and then torturing your father to death with electricity. Then burning down the house."
And that, folks, is what it takes to give YT a hard-on anymore.
@YT: ...uh, very interesting analogy. If the mosque was actually on "Ground Zero" you would be almost correct. It just happens that it's TWO FUCKING BLOCKS AWAY and the owners of that land have the right to build on it. Another amazing fact is that the mosque is NOT A FUCKING SHRINE TO THE HIJACKERS but rather a place of worship similar to a church. Finally, while the 9/11 hijacking was nasty, it is only one of many such nasty events.
The flap about the new "mosque" is over a cultural center with a prayer room. There is another proper, if ant sized Mosque even closer to the 'sacred' site of 9-11.
The Masjid Manhattan has been holding classes at 20 Warren Street, four blocks from Ground Zero. The mosque also holds prayer services several times a day at a cramped location at 384 Broadway, eleven blocks from the former World Trade Center site.
Before YT and his ilk can get their knickers in a twist though, they should remember, this hole in the wall is older than the former World Trade Center so it has or had squatter's rights.
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